I'm alive: Dead blog != Dead author

What do you do when you are back after playing TT for a long time? You are tired, your clothes are stinking of the sweat flowing out of every single pore of your body and you are feeling as clean as a pig having a great time in the slimy surroundings of the filthiest drain.

You go wash yourself?

WHAT? NO! NEVER! What you do, is to take a look at your keyboard to find that it is already dirty since you haven't cleaned it for the past few months and then settle down in your chair to make it dirtier by typing in a bunch of random words and call the result which appears on the screen, a post on your blog which is all but dead.

For those who are interested in the happenings of my life, here's an update:

1)End sems over. Worst end sems in 2 years, I don't want to think about the grades.
2)The silver lining:
--Managed a B in Algorithms in spite of scoring less than 1/3rd marks in the end sems.
--I finally got the second PT credit. Thanks to Mohit for dragging me along, every morning in the month of March.
3)Finished NFSU2, actually this happened a very long time back, some time in March.
4)Home:
--Satisfied my appetite for ghar-ka-khana fully.
--Slept like a log for 11-14 hours everyday.
--Attended a cousin's wedding and got very very bored.
--Cooked dinner with my sister one evening. My contribution being the dessert.
--Casually told Aai that I tried to suttofy once. Unfortunately, she didn't take it casually.
--Shantaram: A truly great book. After quite a long time I actually spent time thinking about every single sentence and its meaning. I would recommend it strongly to everyone. Don't be scared of the 936 pages, you'll never feel that it is such a fat book.
--TV:It has dawned upon me that TV is an absolutely useless medium of entertainment without ESPN & Star Sports. Priyanka Chopra looks very cute in the new Pepsi ad.
--Couldn't spend much time with friends, all of them either had exams or some placement lafda.
--Did not read blogs for 20 days! That's an achievement.
5)Back to pavilion:
--Project has started, have to finish some initial work by Monday.
--Finished 'A Fine Balance', hated the ending. Otherwise a good read.
--Canteen is working fine, hope it survives after the vacation also, unlike the previous one.
--Swimming hasn't started, was looking forward to that. Let's hope that it starts in June.
--Started watching the Star Wars series.
--Downloaded loads of photos of Melissa Theuriau. Isn't she gorgeous?

The journey back home deserves special mention. People ask me why I prefer the meter gauge train which crawls slower than a snail over AP express. My answer is, if I go by AP express, I would miss so many things, the quiet little Parbhani station and the sweet hot tea served there at 2 in the morning when two coaches wait there for a few hours, the little farms that are spread out on both sides of the track, the trees with kids playing around them, the orange-red umbrellas of the numerous Gulmohars, the bridge over Narmada at Onkareshwar which provides a breathtaking view of the river, the railway tunnel which is almost a kilometre long, the spooky station at Kalakund with no electricity. I also get loads of time to look out of the window and think and read continuously with no one to disturb me.

Miss all these little joys to reduce the journey time by 3-4 hours? Nah!

Nadal beat Federer again at Monte Carlo, I'm beginning to hate Nadal. Schumacher won a Grand Prix after a long time. This F1 season looks like it's going to be close. India managed to square the Abu Dhabi series. Turned out be a pretty good series.

The police and government reaction to the peaceful protests by Medical students in Delhi was enraging. What kind of an HRD minister is Arjun Singh who refuses to meet the people? And we call it democracy! Why does a numb-brain like him, with his feet hanging in the grave (and a head so high up his ***) get such an important ministry?

This post is long and haphazard. But, a post coming after more than a month has to be long and there are so many things to cover that I can't do anything about its chaotic state. Also, there is nothing better to breathe new life into a dead blog than a post where you just let the words flow without much thinking.

And now, it is time to take a shower!